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I am a little bit behind on my personal photography project because it is the busy fall season right now. I have been trying to get all of my photo sessions edited and finished before I even start to think about Christmas mini sessions!

The weather has been absolutely amazing and we have been soaking it all up before winter gets here. We are going to carve pumpkins today and Halloween is just around the corner!

My week 12 project was to photograph a high key exposure to the right. Create a light, airy, high key portrait.

I decided to use one of Logan and Jessica’s photos from their engagement session. We were able to use a beautiful spot in Mtn. View and I got so many great shots from their session.

I feel like this photo definitely fits the description for week 12! Beautiful, light and airy with a high key exposure to the upper right corner. Can you guys see the geese in the background? 🙂

I will be putting Jessica and Logan’s engagement session on the blog soon! Hope you guys enjoy!

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I LOVE doing 1 year cake smash sessions! You never know exactly what to expect when it comes to each child. Sometimes they dig right in and other times they take a small taste and evaluate the situation. LOL! They are all different and I really enjoy photographing these special moments in their life!

This past weekend I got to photograph Briley for her birthday session. She is definitely one of the sweetest little girls I’ve ever photographed. She was a little shy at first but she warmed up to me pretty quickly and flashed me some pretty little smiles.

Her mom Macy made all of her decorations and brought a beautiful quilt for her to sit on. She also made her cake! I love when my clients are so crafty! 🙂

She wasn’t too sure about the icing. She liked it but she couldn’t figure out why it was stuck to her hand…? Lol! 😀

Overall I think she had a fun time! Who doesn’t like to get a little messy every now and again?!

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Week 11 didn’t leave me a whole lot of options here in North Central Arkansas. I was hoping to use water for my landscape reflection and we are currently under a burn ban here. Everything is all dried up! Our rainy, wet fall definitely has not started yet.

However, I have some awesome neighbors who have an absolutely beautiful view. They have a pond about the size of a football field in their front yard! I always love going over their and enjoying their view… and their company! 🙂 Thank you Lanny and Debbie!

So here is my Landscape Reflection… I love the sun flare in this photo! No actions or presets needed here! 🙂

Show a subject in their natural habitat. Their place of work or hobby is a great start. Tell their story with the environment.

For this week’s assignment I had the opportunity to photograph my dad, brother, and husband. They were setting poles and framing up a small building.

My dad has been a carpenter, sheet rocker, painter, and many other things throughout his lifetime. He’s dabbled in just about everything you can think of when it comes to construction and building. He likes to call himself The Jack Of All Trades-Master Of None. 😀

He’s given countless hours of his time to a profession that wasn’t always kind to him in return. He gave part of his life and even parts of his flesh and blood. He sacrificed precious time that he will never get back to be able to provide for his family.

A selfless man…

He has taught my brother and husband a little bit about building things over the years and he’s taught us all A LOT about walking with God.

Building a home and building a life… I think they go hand in hand. Something you can take pride in and look back on – your legacy – what you leave behind. Or more importantly WHO you leave behind.

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. Proverbs 22:6

I couldn’t have asked for a better Dad. Someone who loves you and takes care of you. Someone who disciplines you and corrects you even when you don’t want it or think you don’t need it. Someone who helps lead you and guide you in all the right directions. And most importantly teaches you about the love of God.

Not just a sayer of the Word, but a doer.

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror; for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was. But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does. James1:22-25

One of my greatest hopes is that my children will get to inherit some of their PaPa’s skills and knowledge and that they will get to grow up and see his example in their lives like I got to see him in mine.

That I can continue his example…

his legacy…

his life’s work…

Oh how beautifully this fits my Dad…

You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it shall be well with you. Psalm 128:2

I hope he feels as blessed as I do to have him in my life as I am in his.